Huntsville gazette., 1887-11-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

CicCtSu uISHOp ol tuo w eSuern diocese OF
Texas of the Protestant Episcopal church
PHILIP Cross and John O'Hara were
found at Alpena, Mich, on the morning Of
the 2sth, in the sassen of the foianer. un-
conscious. Vas had a bnlles n. his
mead, and Gross had his head chopped
open with an axe. 1t is supposed they
fought together. Both were fatally
wounded.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY WHITNEY is
reported as too i'll to attend to his duties
JAY GOULD left on the afternoon of the
18th on the Umbria for Liverpool
1T is said that VIM. j. McGarigle, the
Chicago boodler, is in Winnipeg.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt
at Pointe des Monts, Quebec, on the morn
ing of the Goth.
HAPPY BOB VAN BRUNT, the murderer
of Will Roy, at Warsaw, N. Y, was sem
fenced on the 29th to be hanged Decembe +
next.
THE appeal of William O'Brien from his
Mltchellstown conviction and sentence is
to be heard at Cork the present week.
OSCAR HUGO WEBER, convicted at Phil
adelphia of the murder of James Martin,
the South street jeweler, has been sem
fenced to be hanged.
= Mr. CHAMBERLAIN is to be ACCOMPANIED
by body-guard of English and Ameri-
can detectives on his visit to this country.
Mss MARY ANDERSON has broken off
her negotiations for tour of Australia,
the terms offered being insufficient to in
duce her to undertake the Journey.
IT is said that Jay Gould fastened the
date of his departure on account of
bYao tan Lott
chist sympathizers.
NINETEEN new cases Of fever and three
deaths were reported from Tampa, Fla,
on the 18th. The weather is still oppress
lively warm.
LIEUTENANT HENN's sloop yacht Gala
tea, which sailed from New York October
II, arrived at Queenstown on the 18th.
SIR CHARLES dixie advocates the ex-
penditure of about e., 900, 900 for new army
rifles and e5,000,090 for new defenses of
London.
MRS. CLEvELAND's mother, Mrs. Folsom,
has as guests now at Oak View her sister
and husband, Mr.. and Mrs. CodwelI, of
Jackson, Mich. They are the parents of
little May Codwell, who spent last winter
at the White House.
ADvICES from Tonto Basin, Ariz., bring
news of the killing of a cowboy named
VIM. Benner. Benner is supposed to be
the anan gEho racs.stiy robbed the stage
fifteen miles north of Fort Apache.
THERE seems to be good foundation for
the report that Postmaster General Villas
will be transferred to the Interior Depart
ment.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH, in a speech
at Vienna, spoke hopefully of continued
peace in Europe.
THE propeller Vernon has been lost on
La Ike Michigan, north of Manitowoc. Wis
The entire crew, consisting of twenty
two persons, is supposed to have per-
ished.
BURGLARS blew open the safe in the
post-office at Fairmont, Neb., and stol 9
81 200 worth of notes and couple of deeds
belonging to Postmaster Sawyer, besides
about S100 in stamps and currency.
The jury in the case of John Robinson,
charged with the murder of John Hop
kins in July last at McKee's Rocks, near
Pittsburgh, Pa, rendered a verdict of
murder i'll the second degree. The jury
had been out five days.
HENRY E. LINCOLN, prominent citizen
of Brockton, Mass, and member of the
a number Of large enterprises, committed
suicide on the 29th by shooting.
RIGI DOMINGO, aged one year, and
Giovanni Mendazona, aged six years,
both passengers on the quarantined ship
Britannia, died of cholera at Swinburne
island on the night of the Goth. Angely
Celanzo, aged forty was taken from the
Britannia to the hospital, being stricken
with cholera.
OMAHA is threatened with general
strike of swtchmen.
The Guatemalan revolution has been
suppressed
THE funeral of Rear Admiral Nicholson,
U. S. N, took place in New York on the
31st.
THE English arbitration committee were
received by the President on the 31st.
ENGLISH and American advocates of
arbitration held a conference at Brompton,
England, on the 31st.
THE Consolidated CattleGrowers' As
sociation began its National convention at
Kansas City, Mo-, on the 31st.
THE contract is let and work will COM
mence at once on the Davenport, Iowa &
Dakota railroad.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE announced in the
Supreme Court on the 31st that the decis-
ion in the Anarchists case would be
rendered November 2.
WILLIAM DOLAN, a white brakeman,
was shot and killed at Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 31st, by William Robinson, colored
policemen, whom the former was resist
ing. Robinson barely escaped lynching
and was lodged in jail.
THE schooner Napoleon, of Milwaukee,
was driven ashore at Frankfort, Mich,
during the recent gale, and is total
wreck. All hands were rescued by the
life-saving crew.
THE flagship of the Russian Pacific
squadron is reported ashore op the rocks
at Vladivostock.
WILLIAM SMALLER blew his wife's
brains out with pistol at Ithaca, N. Y,
on the 31st, and then sent a bullet through
his own brain.
AN unknown sneak thief entered the
office of the Park missioner at Buffalo,
N. Y, on the 31st, and stole bag con-
tanning 50, 200 and got away with it.
MRS. KATIE MILLER, of Cincinnati, who
had been driven insane by the drunken
ness, neglect and abuse of worthless
husband, threw her nine-year old daugh-
ter out of third-story window on the
31st and then jumped after her. The
latter died instantly, and the child was